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2003-10-25 Iraq

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Posted by CrazyFool 2003-10-25 12:37:12 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I repeat my solution to this problem. March everyone of these yahoos out into the desert and leave them there to fend for themselves. Why should we provide food/water/shelter for them?

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2003-10-25 1:18:23 PM|| 2003-10-25 1:18:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 I was saying this before the war, and I'll say it again. There are times when you have to make a example of a place. It may be too late now, but Tikrit, as the home of Sammy's tribe, should have been leveled. I don't think very many other Iraqis would have complained.

Posted by Steve 2003-10-25 1:26:30 PM|| 2003-10-25 1:26:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 What do 100 D-9s or D-10s with push blades running side by side look like?

FUN

dorf

Posted by Anonymous 2003-10-25 5:02:12 PM|| 2003-10-25 5:02:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 I started out scoffing at this notion, but according to globalsecurity.org the population of Tikrit is only 28,000 -- might actually be practical. Might be useful to couch it as a challenge... if Saddam doesn't show up at a Coalition base by such-and-such a day, Tikrit will be destroyed.

Fallujah is a tougher problem -- a quarter million folk is a lot of refugees to take responsibility for (and we'd have to, eventually).

Posted by snellenr 2003-10-25 5:32:08 PM|| 2003-10-25 5:32:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 So where are the outraged posts? Last time I posted a comment like Steve's I had 20 pfools come out of the woodwork wanting to nail me up.

I agree it's obvious that the Sunni Triangle should be crushed - it's all they seem to understand. All that treating them with any level of civility gets you is tribal merc BS ("Yes, we will guard the pipeline: $1000/km/month") or ambushes and sheltering of foreign asshats.

Sheesh.

Hmmmm. Prolly part of that Conspiracy of Steves thing, huh?

Posted by .com 2003-10-25 5:35:18 PM|| 2003-10-25 5:35:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 .com, we're doing our best -- but also trying to include some content in our rants in keeping with Fred's wishes to stay pertinent :-)

Posted by snellenr 2003-10-25 5:38:41 PM|| 2003-10-25 5:38:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 snellenr - Excellent implied slur.

Posted by .com 2003-10-25 5:55:26 PM|| 2003-10-25 5:55:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 .com -- wasn't meant as a slur in your direction (I'm not that subtle), and sorry you took it that way. Was actually thinking of myself much more, and will be trying to moderate my suggestions of de-D/T'd B-83s and hovering blimps in the future.

Posted by snellenr 2003-10-25 9:11:43 PM|| 2003-10-25 9:11:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 snellenr - sorry, I've been distracted watching the Northern Ice Cave Jooos play the Southern Sun People Jooos in the the Series...

No sweat and no offense taken - it made me think about what I type, too... and it was damned good!

I'm not sure I'm cut out for this thinking real hard about being relevant - or not. That's not the way I work.

Posted by .com 2003-10-25 10:07:22 PM|| 2003-10-25 10:07:22 PM|| Front Page Top

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